Fed Cup 2014 - Europe/Africa Zone Group I

Scouseandy · Social player

RE: Fed Cup 2014 - Europe/Africa Zone Group I

steven · Tennis legend

I see Paul found the Fed Cup schedule too - I too was beginning to think it was never going to come out!

My source was the Hungarian Tennis Federation site - http://bit.ly/1ddho7I - worth knowing in case anything changes, though I don't see why it should.

If it ends up with only the first match in the schedule for each session being on a streamed court, it'll mean the one that isn't streamed is the most important one, but the order on the schedule may be random, in which case it seems like that if there is only one streamed court, it'll be the one with the Hungarians and that's the only tie those of us stuck at home will get to see. Of course, there may be more than one streamed court or none at all.

There is also an article about Joss in today's Nottingham Post - http://bit.ly/1ddj5lz

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

I'm glad they have brought the schedule out as it makes things a bit easier to plan, and it largely suits me quite well. 4pm starts are conducive to doing some sight-seeing in the daytime, and as I am staying in Prague on Monday night I didn't want us to start on Tuesday at 10am. Also nice to have the easiest tie first.

The only issue is that I will have to leave for the airport at about 7:30 on Sunday, which if we do well in the group could be just as it gets really interesting! (I will at least see how we do against Romania before considering any last minute change of plans though).

paulisi · Tennis legend

Nice to see there will be streaming for this event as there hasn't been for the last couple of years.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Streaming on all courts apparently

steven · Tennis legend

Oh excellent

I guess that's next week's productivity destroyed then ...

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Are the beeb showing any of this? Or at least commentating on it?

DWH · Club Coach

There's a nice little video profile on JoKo on the BBC site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/26022630

Spectator · All-time great

Great profile. She always comes across as such a lovely person, in addition to being a fine athlete. Hope they all do really well.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Helen40 wrote:
Are the beeb showing any of this? Or at least commentating on it?

It isn't mentioned on their "Live tennis on the BBC" page http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/16660418 so looks unlikely.

wolf · Tennis legend

Heather against Jelena Ostapenko has just started.

Jan · Hall of fame

stream doesn't appear to be working cry

PaulM · Tennis legend

Sadly they appear to have underestimated potential traffic, and it's not coped. It was working fine until about 5 mins before play started yesterday and then it broke down.

You might get the odd passage of 5-10mins where it will work, but I'd rely on the scores for now.

Hev recovers from being broken in the first game to lead *3-1

wolf · Tennis legend

Bit of a struggle but Heather finally takes the first set 7-5.

Jan · Hall of fame

Do we know what ranking Hev's opponent is?